Dublin Castle (Office of the Comptroller and Audit

Office in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1710–1840

Attached eighteen-bay three-storey office block over basement, built 1712-17 Middle six bays advanced slightly. Pitched natural slate roof, with lead wood-cored ridge and hip cappings, parapet gutter, brick chimneystacks with clay pots to ridge. Ashlar stone parapet with blocking course cornice and frieze to front (south) elevation, concealed lead-lined corner gutter to rear elevation, and round-profile cast-iron downpipes to both principal elevations. Red brick walling, laid to Flemish Bond, on all three free elevations, with moulded granite plinth to basement, ground floor string, plain platbands to first and second floors, moulded cornice, fascia and blocking course, and with channelled (V-jointed) quoins to breakfront and ends. Square-headed window openings, with gauged brick voussoirs, slightly projecting render reveals, granite sills, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement, nine-over-six pane to ground and first floors front and ground floor rear, six-over-six pane to second floor, with some exposed cases to basement of front elevation and all floors of rear elevation. Four square-headed entrance doors to front elevation, each having moulded architrave on plinth blocks, plain frieze, segmental pediment over dentillated cornice, double-leaf timber doors with three panels to each leaf with bolection moulding, moulded transom, margined three-pane over

Type:
Office

Period:
1710–1840

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.27°W

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